Professor Karl Fredric MacDorman

Karl Fredric MacDorman, Ph.D.
is Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction program of the
School of Informatics, Indiana University. He is a widely published
scholar and
also is an Adjunct Professor with the Purdue School of Engineering and
Technology.

Karl has a research and education background
that is international in scope. He received his Bachelor of
Arts degree in computer science from University of California, Berkeley
in 1988. His studies then took him to Cambridge University in the United
Kingdom where he received his Ph.D. in machine learning and robotics in
1996.

Most recently Karl was an associate professor at Osaka University,
Japan (2003–2005). Previously, he was assistant professor in the
Department of Systems and Human Science at the same institution
(1997–2000), and a supervisor (1991–1997) and research fellow
(1997–1998) at Cambridge University.

Karl has also worked as a software engineer at Sun Microsystems
and as chief technology officer for two venture companies. He has
published more than 40 papers in Human Computer Interaction, Robotics,
Machine Learning, and Cognitive Science.